Thursday, June 9, 2011

The other day when we were out hiking I saw all these little green things by the giant waterbowl thing. My human wouldn't let me try to eat - uhm, I mean meet - one until she took a picture... but dumb Droid is sooooooo slow, the little green things were all gone by the time she was done.

So now I have two questions. What are these green things and (more important) are they eatable?

22 comments:

I'm not sure what the official answer here is, but I know that I don't want to eat them (my mom just sighed relief). It is probably a frog or a toad my mom says. All I know is that when I was checking one out on my grandparents' porch and it kept jumping in my face. I didn't like that. The nerve! Just the other day my dad found an albino frog by the garden hose. We've never seen a white one before! Here's to more adventures and more new discoveries!Love,Payton

My human says they are frogs and that you CAN eat them but they poop a nasty tasting foul (OMP I'm gonna barf) stuff when they feel threatened. I would think that trying to eat one would qualify as threatened. BOL. I didn't ask how she knew that. BOL Have a great day!

Oh Puglet! I really don't think it's eatable. My mommy said that she had a Scottie when she was a little baby. It bit her, her sister and her girl cousin. (apparently he didn't like girls) and her family sent it to Puerto Rico to live with other family. Down there he bit a frog went over some rainbow bridge. (I guess the frog was a girl too)

Oh Puglet...thank goodness you asked the most important question of all...is it eatable? That is what we always want to know and I don't think we want to eat these. Love to chase them and try to eat them, but that is all we want to do!

3E's...we had a gecko come in our yard and I tried to catch it but it got away, most don't but this one did and it only had three legs and you kmow what, it came back in a few days and still only had three legs! Maybe he knew your 3 footed toad or maybe it's a TX thing!

My advice is do not even attempt to eat the thing. My cat once tried to eat one and he was spewing foam and spit from his mouth. It was nasty. They are, however, kind of funny to look at.Just sayin'...Kris in Oklahoma

Puglet, you are so lucky you got to check out that green thing. We had one in our yard last week and the humans wouldn't even let us out. Something to do with what folks here are saying about them causing big problems. So I guess don't eat them. But if you did, they say they taste like chicken.

Frogs and toads are super fun to chase, but not to eat. However they live in au jus puddles and add a most delectable flavor to my au jus, somewhat earthy, somewhat fresh watery, a mossy je ne sais quoi to the whole pot. I haven't found any frogs or toads at my new place yet, but they were just coming out to play where I used to live.

Puglet, our pug used to love "catching" the frogs along our river bank. We could always tell when he did because he would have foam at the mouth from whatever poision they releashed from their skin. Luckily it was never lethal. Scary green things indeed!